[ARROW-8897] [C++] Determine strategy for propagating failures in initializing built-in function registry in arrow/compute

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25031
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 22/May/20 21:44
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:03

Description

As discussed on https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7240, we are using DCHECK_OK to check statuses when initializing the built-in registry.

We could propagate failures by changing arrow::compute::GetFunctionRegistry to return Result, but there may be other ways

Issue Links

• is a child of: ARROW-8894 [C++] C++ array kernels framework and execution buildout (umbrella issue)